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Nicomatic: taking over an industrial web ecosystem and moving it forward
For Nicomatic, a manufacturer of connectors and interconnect solutions, we took over the Drupal corporate website and the product platform. We maintain and evolve them, with an embedded team member working alongside the client's teams.
Context
Custom connectors, a web ecosystem to match.
Since 1976, Nicomatic has designed and manufactured custom connectors, cable assemblies and integrated systems for defence, aviation, space, medical and energy. Its web ecosystem mirrors this offer: a corporate website, a product platform with its configurator, and the MyNicomatic customer area, alongside the company's tools (CRM, PLM, ERP) and its subsidiaries' websites.
We took over the corporate website and the product platform, built before us. Since then, we have handled their maintenance and evolution, with an embedded architect working day to day with Nicomatic's teams.
Our role
What we bring to Nicomatic.
A controlled takeover
An audit of both platforms, then a takeover of the existing code and its deployment, with no disruption for visitors or teams.
Long-term maintenance
Fixes, version upgrades and security, on a dedicated monthly run allowance.
An embedded architect
A Neovia architect working within the client's teams, to drive changes and the technical vision day to day.
A big-picture view
An inventory of the whole ecosystem and guiding principles: modularity, business first, step-by-step progress, reducing technical debt.
Modular authoring
Pages built from preconfigured editorial blocks, so marketing can publish without technical skills.
Projects that don't block each other
Each project is scoped so it does not sit on the critical path of the others: configurator, PLM, subsidiaries' websites.
The ecosystem
Three platforms, one direction.
The corporate website
The brand's Drupal website, in French and English: markets, services, resources and news.
The product platform and its configurator
The catalogue of connector ranges and the configurator that helps build a custom product.
MyNicomatic
The customer area, connected to the other building blocks of the ecosystem.
What's next
Bringing the product offer to the corporate website.
The current project brings the product offer onto the corporate website: a new product page model, downloadable documents and product pages independent of the configurator, with document management ready to plug into a PLM connector when the time comes.
Beyond that, we have proposed a group web architecture for the subsidiaries: a central Drupal back office and a Next.js front end per country, with content governance suited to each subsidiary's resources.
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